Deployable Mobile Tower Structure for Wind-Stable Remote Setup
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing mobile towers are bulky, heavy, and difficult to transport to remote locations, requiring extensive time for deployment and often cannot support payloads or withstand wind loads, with internal components lacking protection from environmental factors.
Innovation Solution
A mobile tower system featuring an extendable and retractable design secured to a trailer with rapidly deployable outriggers, a rigging apparatus, and guy wires for stabilization, allowing for rapid deployment and stabilization at remote sites, with telescopically expandable outriggers and a method for efficient assembly and disassembly.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Strength
If existing mobile towers are designed to be sturdy and support payloads, then they can withstand wind loads and support equipment, but they become bulky, heavy and difficult to transport
Solution Approach 1:
The tower is divided into multiple telescopic sections that can be nested within each other during transport, reducing the overall size and weight for mobile deployment while maintaining full structural strength when deployed. The outriggers are also segmented into telescopic sections that can be compacted for transport and extended for stabilization.
Solution Approach 2:
The tower sections are designed to nest within each other like dolls, with smaller sections fitting inside larger ones. This nesting configuration dramatically reduces the transport footprint and effective weight during mobile deployment while preserving the full extended height and structural integrity when deployed at the destination.
2Weight of moving object
If existing mobile towers are made compact for transport, then they are easier to deliver to remote locations, but they take upwards of 1-2 hours or longer to erect
Solution Approach 1:
The tower employs dynamic telescopic mechanisms with multiple movable sections that can be rapidly extended and locked into position. The outriggers feature dynamic telescopic extension with hydraulic or mechanical actuation, allowing the structure to transition from a compact transport configuration to a fully deployed stabilized position in minutes rather than hours.
Solution Approach 2:
The tower sections and outriggers are pre-assembled and pre-configured in a compact nested state for transport. The interlocking mechanisms and alignment features are pre-designed to automatically engage when sections are extended, eliminating the need for complex field assembly operations and reducing deployment time significantly.
3Duration of action of stationary object
If existing mobile towers are deployed for extended periods in remote locations, then they can provide sustained support, but internal mechanical and electrical components are exposed to environmental factors
Solution Approach 1:
The tower incorporates protective enclosures and weather-resistant coatings on all internal mechanical and electrical components. Telescopic seals and protective films are integrated into the moving sections to prevent water, dust, and environmental contaminants from penetrating internal mechanisms during extended deployment in remote locations.
4Adaptability or versatility
If existing mobile towers need to be refitted with different sensors, antennas, lighting, etc., then they can adapt to different applications, but the process is time consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The tower is designed with universal mounting interfaces and standardized connection points that can accommodate various types of sensors, antennas, lighting, and other equipment. Quick-connect mechanisms and pre-positioned mounting flanges allow different payloads to be rapidly swapped without requiring complex refitting operations, enabling the same tower structure to serve multiple applications.
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AI summary
A mobile tower for transportation to and rapid deployment at remote sites where the mobile tower can be engaged with the ground, the mobile tower including an extendable and retractable tower secured to a mobile support structure including a frame having a plurality of rapidly deployable outriggers, wherein the tower includes three series of pivotally interconnected tower sections or segments, sections or segments of which engage with segments of each of the other series when the tower is assembled; the mobile tower including a plurality of guy wires secured between the extendable and retractable tower and the respective outriggers to stabilize the tower after the tower is assembled. The guy wires are preferably secured to the extendable and retractable tower at first and second connecting positions that are displaced from one another about an outer perimeter. Methods of deploying the mobile tower are also disclosed.